Wow! What a day! Two things....About Kohl's. I called there yesterday immediately after I heard that they had these figures (#'s 33-40)that are in so much demand. I never knew they had a toy area or section in a Kohl's, so I was surprised when I heard the news. Anyway, I called, spoke with the "Children's Dept." manager. She tells me they have them! Yay! But not yay! She has decided to keep them in the back and not to sell them "until the movie gets closer." First of all, how much closer to the movie date can you get. So last night I went in there, knowing that this manager wouldn't be there, so I tried to get another sales associate to help me. I told her that I spoke to a woman earlier that day, and she told me they were in the back, but I said nothing about her wanting to keep them in the back for some ridiculous reason. She called around and thus the hunt went on looking for these boxes. Never found unfortunately, which is a complete bummer because I think if they found them they would have sold them to me. So anyways, I left my name and number and the girl I spoke with said "someone" would get back to me. Well today went by and that didn't happen. What should I do? Does anyone have any suggestions? I still need to find #37-40, plus I wouldn't min a Palpatine with the red saber. I picked up three today and all had the blue saber.

The great news is I went to a local Wal-Mart tonight looking for these (#33-#40) and I quickly looked on the pegs to find really nothing again. But I then looked over to the open isle and there was a couple of figure boxes sitting right there on the floor. I got excited! Pulled out that master list with all the box numbers/codes that list the types of figures in each box. Jackpot! It was just what I was looking for except no #'s 37-40. But I did score Clone Commander, Clone Pilot, General Grievous (Exploding Body!), and Palpatine(Lightsaber Attack!). Multiples of each because I'm collecting more than one set of the figures. It was a good score. I did ask one of the Wal-Mart employees if it was alright if I could open them and he said it was alright but only after a little coaxing, but he just wanted to scan one first to make sure it worked. He told me he thought those figures were already on the pegs, but I told him that they weren't. He ended up being really cool about it. Later

I'm surprised they'd keep them in the back. If I'm not mistaken the boxes have specific "street by" dates so the toys are out by a certain time. I don't think somebody could arbitrarily decide not to put stuff out.

I could really give a crap about perceived value, to be honest. What I really want is the corrected red saber version of #35. Right now, though, I have my Palpatine with the "revealed" face and hands, casting force lightning. I guess I'm going to have to get an ROTS Mace after all, so he can be jobbed by the almighty Ian.

Browse wal-mart I was in there yesterday and I had found most of them up until 39 but I only picked up palpatine #35 with the blue saber. My older borther on the other hand bought most of them since he works there.

I came across the first figures I'd ever seen above #32 on a toy run today. A local Wal-Mart had three Clone Commanders, one Clone Pilot, and two "Exploding" Grievous figures. Not much, but better than nothing.